i haven't yet got the blackberry service however when i talked to a guy at t mobile he said i should not need a plan to send or receive pictures is this true if so does anyone know how to tweak my blackberry so it will work.

If you have a messaging plan and don't have a BlackBerry data plan you can ask them to enable the BlackBerry Feature Enabler. This will allow you to send MMS messages without a BlackBerry data plan. This is only for T-Mobile.